The European Parliament held a special meeting today to debate what it finds to be Nigeria's continuing human rights violations, including their frightening ban on all things homo. The MEP's voted 61-24 (with one abstention) for Nigeria to abandon the bill, as well as do away with the death penalty, address censorship and child labor, among other things.

Section J, article 6 of Resolution B6-105 reads:

[The European Parliament] Calls on the Nigerian Parliament not to adopt the proposed 'Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act' in its current form, since it contains infringements of the basic human rights of freedom of expression and opinion, in particular when it envisages a five-year prison sentence for anyone involved publicly or privately in positive representation of or advocacy for same sex relationships.

While it's not unheard of for politicians to issue such edicts, one can't help but wonder why Europe's picking on Nigeria. Yes, Nigeria doesn't have the best human rights record, but what about all the gay hating in Ghana and Uganda?

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